I focus on one very specific aim: to be the best sprint coach in Africa."

By Nick ButlerDecember 20 - Uganda has continued a Commonwealth wide trend of introducing anti-gay rights legislation to emphasise the widespread nature of prejudice existing among many of the nations who will compete at Glasgow 2014.

schedule a parallel human rights conference with a strong equalities element, including gay speakers from Africa

By Nick ButlerDecember 19 - Japan are preparing to bid for another major sporting event in the form of the 2023 Women's World Cup, it has been announced.

quadrennial basis.The 2015 version has already been awarded to Canada, while the likes of Australia, South Africa

would have found favour with the late Nelson Mandela, who said he not fought for democracy in South Africa

By Gary AndersonDecember 16 - Glasgow 2014 today announced global power company Aggreko will provide temporary power for the duration of the Commonwealth Games.

City 2002, Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 and London 2012, as well as the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa

both a British and a global sense.I was given a good indication of this with a visit to the Europe, Africa

By Nick Butler at Charlotte Street in LondonDecember 13 - Great Britain's Major League Baseball (MLB) star Michael Roth has strongly supported the sport's bid for inclusion at Tokyo 2020 after the possibility was re-opened last month.

actually do that," the 23-year old told insidethegames during a visit to the MLB's Europe, Africa

By Paul OsborneDecember 11 - The International Basketball Federation's (FIBA) 3x3 All Stars event will get underway in Doha tomorrow as the number one players from across the world prepare to battle for basketball supremacy on the Katara Beach.

The highest ranked player from Europe, the Americas, the Rest of the World, which consists of Africa,

By Paul OsborneDecember 10 - Former England Sevens captain Rob Vickerman has left the squad to pursue other opportunities, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) announced today.

HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series events this year, having been left out of the squad in Dubai and South Africa

writer of this story at [email protected] storiesDecember 2013: Inspired South Africa

It was in the early seventies when I made my first visit to South Africa.

I mentioned I had just been to South Africa."Wonderful country," he enthused. "So hospitable.

Undoubtedly the [FIFA] World Cup held in South Africa in 2010 was something he was proud of because he

always wanted such a major global event in South Africa.

South Africa had been expected to bid for the 2020 Olympics before the Government announced it would

By Paul OsborneDecember 8 - An inspired South Africa have won their first home HSBC World Sevens Series

the second half to seal the win for his side and deny the visitors a fifth successive title in South Africa

Kyle Brown completed a dramatic comeback for the home nation ©Getty ImagesThe victory leaves South Africa

By Duncan Mackay in LausanneDecember 8 - The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has bowed to pressure by amending its constitution and agreeing to hold new elections which will see Abhay Chautala and Lalit Bhanot replaced as President and secretary general respectively.

populous nation out of all Olympic competitions.No country has been banned from the Olympics since South Africa

OsborneDecember 7 - Emotions were running high on the opening day of the Cell C Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa

By Nick ButlerDecember 6 - International Rugby Board chairman Bernard Lapasset and FIFA President Sepp Blatter have led sporting tributes following the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela at the age of 95.

was a leading figure in Rugby World Cup, the first major sporting event to take place in South Africa

rugby family could play its small part in supporting Mr Mandela's efforts to establish the new South Africa

Mandela also oversaw the FIFA World Cup being awarded to South Africa for the first time in 2010.Indeed

It was one of the most moving moments I have ever experienced - for him, the World Cup in South Africa

Olympic and Paralympic Games, and although he was ultimately unsuccessful in bringing the Games to Africa

It wasn't that the Springboks so memorably won it, it was the sheer fact that South Africa HOSTED it.

and sacrifice that simply could not have happened because Springbok Rugby epitomised everything South Africa

the legacy of change Mandela worked tirelessly for brought recognition from FIFA in 2010 when South Africa

When the country was awarded the honour, half the world said South Africa wasn't capable of staging such

He used it to accelerate the pace of change in South Africa and for those who remain in positions of